In today’s Journal
* Quotes of the Day
* Dealing with a Situation
* Of Interest
Quotes of the Day
“Merely providing an AI tool with a prompt, without extending creative control over how the tool interprets the prompt and generates expressive material, will fail to meet the standard for copyright registration.” US Copyright Office Guidance, March 17, 2023
“The registrant must identify the “traditional elements of authorship” that were executed by a human author and explicitly disclaim the AI-generated content in the application.” US Copyright Office Guidance, March 17, 2023
All of that (and the other guidelines) said, one does not have to register a copyright for the work in question to be protected by copyright.
Dealing with a Situation
My apologies in advance. My Journal posts will be limited or absent for a short time. We’re dealing with the illness and what appears to be the impending demise of my kitten.
I have considered her my youngest daughter for the past 12 years. She blurred the line between species with her incredible patience and unconditional love.
She has been ill for a couple of months, but yesterday she refused to eat or drink and stopped grooming. She does still enjoy lying on her side, her back against my chest, her head on my left arm.
Thanks in advance for your kind thoughts and impulses, but no comments or emails of condolence are necessary. Please just love whom you have in every waking moment and hold them close in your dreams when you sleep.
Of course, no writing yesterday.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “Myth Believer” at https://deanwesleysmith.com/myth-believer/.
See “IP rights at top of mind as U.S. Copyright Office offers guidance on AI-generated works” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/ip-rights-at-top-of-mind-as-u-s-copyright-office-offers-guidance-on-ai-generated-works/.
See “15 Idioms About Time” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/15-idioms-about-time/. Grammarly is an inexcusable purveyor of soup sandwiches. I detest the company, How can anyone take seriously a company that invokes the word “grammar” in their name and then state that a run-on sentence is just “a really long sentence”? They screwed up at least once in this excerpt. I posted the link only because some of you might find the excerpt and article useful otherwise.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 350
Writing of Wes Crowley: Deputy US Marshal 2 (WCG9SF4)
Day 11… 0323 words. Total words to date…… 19819
Day 12… 2445 words. Total words to date…… 22264
Day 13… 3184 words. Total words to date…… 25448
Total fiction words for April……… 12641
Total fiction words since April 1… 12641
Total fiction words for 2023………… 78829
Total nonfiction words for April… 7710
Total nonfiction words since April 1… 7710
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 69970
Total words (fiction and this blog) since April 1…… 20351 (to shadow Dean’s challenge)
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 148799
Calendar Year 2023 Novels to Date…………………… 1
Calendar Year 2023 Novellas to Date……………… 0
Calendar Year 2023 Short Stories to Date… 4
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 72
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 9
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 221
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31
Disclaimer: I am a prolific professional fiction writer. On this blog I teach Writing Into the Dark, adherence to Heinlein’s Rules, and that following the myths of fiction writing will slow your progresss as a writer or stop you cold. I will never teach the myths on this blog.